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Differential antinociceptive effects induced by intrathecally administered endomorphin-1 and endomorphin-2 in the mouse.

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:Two highly selective mu-opioid receptor agonists, endomorphin-1 and endomorphin-2, have been identified and postulated to be endogenous ligands for mu-opioid receptors. Intrathecal (i.t.) administration of endomorphin-1 and endomorphin-2 at doses from 0.039 to 5 nmol dose-dependently produced antinociception with the paw-withdrawal test. The paw-withdrawal inhibition rapidly reached its peak at 1 min, rapidly declined and returned to the pre-injection levels in 20 min. The inhibition of the paw-withdrawal responses to endomorphin-1 and endomorphin-2 at a dose of 5 nmol observed at 1 and 5 min after injection was blocked by pretreatment with a non-selective opioid receptor antagonist naloxone (1 mg/kg, s.c.). The antinociceptive effect of endomorphin-2 was more sensitive to the mu (1)-opioid receptor antagonist, naloxonazine than that of endomorphin-1. The endomorphin-2-induced paw-withdrawal inhibition at both 1 and 5 min after injection was blocked by pretreatment with kappa-opioid receptor antagonist nor-binaltorphimine (10 mg/kg, s.c.) or the delta(2)-opioid receptor antagonist naltriben (0.6 mg/kg, s.c.) but not the delta(1)-opioid receptor antagonist 7-benzylidine naltrexone (BNTX) (0.6 mg/kg s.c.). In contrast, the paw-withdrawal inhibition induced by endomorphin-1 observed at both 1 and 5 min after injection was not blocked by naloxonazine (35 mg/kg, s.c.), nor-binaltorphimine (10 mg/kg, s.c.), naltriben (0.6 mg/kg, s.c.) or BNTX (0.6 mg/kg s.c.). The endomorphin-2-induced paw-withdrawal inhibition was blocked by the pretreatment with an antiserum against dynorphin A-(1-17) or [Met(5)]enkephalin, but not by antiserum against dynorphin B-(1-13). Pretreatment with these antisera did not affect the endomorphin-1-induced paw-withdrawal inhibition. Our results indicate that endomorphin-2 given i.t. produces its antinociceptive effects via the stimulation of mu (1)-opioid receptors (naloxonazine-sensitive site) in the spinal cord. The antinociception induced by endomophin-2 contains additional components, which are mediated by the release of dynorphin A-(1-17) and [Met(5)]enkephalin which subsequently act on kappa-opioid receptors and delta(2)-opioid receptors to produce antinociception.

journal_name

Eur J Pharmacol

journal_title

European journal of pharmacology

authors

Sakurada S,Hayashi T,Yuhki M,Orito T,Zadina JE,Kastin AJ,Fujimura T,Murayama K,Sakurada C,Sakurada T,Narita M,Suzuki T,Tan-no K,Tseng LF

doi

10.1016/s0014-2999(01)01238-9

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pub_date

2001-09-21 00:00:00

pages

203-10

issue

eissn

0014-2999

issn

1879-0712

pii

S0014299901012389

journal_volume

427

pub_type

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Differential antinociceptive effects induced by intrathecally administered endomorphin-1 and endomorphin-2 in the mouse.